The Silk Road, sentence 22
The name "Silk Road" was invented by a German geographer, Ferdinand von Richthofen, in 1877.
Who acts: German geographer · What happens: invent · To what, where: name, 1877
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Silk Road» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (German geographer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 invented | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Road | punct |
| 4 | Silk | Silk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Road | compound |
| 5 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 name | appos |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Road | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 invented | aux:pass |
| 8 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 geographer | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 geographer | det |
| 11 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 geographer | amod |
| 12 | geographer | geographer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 invented | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ferdinand | punct |
| 14 | Ferdinand | Ferdinand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 geographer | appos |
| 15 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 14 Ferdinand | flat |
| 16 | Richthofen | Richthofen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ferdinand | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 1877 | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 1877 | case |
| 19 | 1877 | 1877 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 invented | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 invented | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invent | past · passive | a German geographer | the name | 1877 | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:geography:028-the-silk-road.lesson:22.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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